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TIL that some of the ancient Native American pueblos have been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years

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8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
aE9M TIL the founder of L'Oreal founded and bankrolled a terrorist organization based at the L'Oreal headquarters. On September 11th, 1937, they bombed two buildings to create the impression of a communist conspiracy
WQyX TIL 9 lost cities have been rediscovered.
gj8D TIL that IBM was so powerful in 1983 that people feared that its PCjr home computer would destroy Apple, Commodore, and all other competitors. The PCjr became “one of the biggest flops in the history of computing”.
1aGmD TIL of the Atacama Desert in South America, the driest nonpolar place in the world. Some weather stations there have never received rain and evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971.